The United States skipped a scheduled review of its human rights record before the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday, declining to participate in a process that has been in place for nearly two decades.

The Trump administration’s absence marked the first time a country has refused to participate in an entire cycle of the council’s Universal Periodic Review, a process in which all 193 U.N. member states are scrutinized for their human rights records. The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to postpone the U.S.’s review until January to bring Washington back into the process.

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